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The team-up kicks off with the just-released EP from girl group izna, whose music is helmed by BLACKPINK and KPop Demon Hunters producer Teddy. izna Courtesy of WAKEONE Trending on Billboard ALPHA DRIVE ONE and izna were both built by fans, backed by one of Korea’s strongest cultural conglomerates and now two of K-pop’s most-watched acts have a major U.S. partner. Billboard can exclusively report that South Korean label WAKEONE has entered a strategic partnership with REPUBLIC Collective, the Universal Music Group division that has led three of Billboard‘s year-end label charts for the past five years: Top Labels, Billboard 200 Labels and Hot 100 Labels. Officially announced Tuesday (June 9), the deal will see REPUBLIC support WAKEONE’s girl group izna and the recently debuted boy band ALPHA DRIVE ONE for the acts’ global expansion including album promotion and distribution. Related Both izna and ALPHA DRIVE ONE were assembled in real-time by international K-pop fan voters: izna through the 2024 survival singing competition show I-Land 2 — where fans across a reported 217 countries and regions voted for the final girl group lineup — and ALPHA DRIVE ONE (also known as ALD1) on Boys II Planet, which reportedly drew more

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The spin-off of Curve, a royalty accounting and rights management business, fulfills a stipulation made by regulators when they approved the Downtown sale. Matt Spetzler, Richard Leach & Charlie Lexton Courtesy Trending on Billboard Independent music label collective Merlin and music tech investment firm Jamen Capital said on Monday (June 8) they plan to buy Curve Royalty Systems from Virgin Music Group. Curve, a royalty accounting and rights management business, was previously owned by Downtown Music Group. Its sale to Merlin and Jamen fulfills a requirement European regulators outlined when they approved Virgin parent Universal Music Group’s acquisition of Downtown over concerns that Curve could give Virgin upstream data about rival labels. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it remains subject to approval by the European Commission. Related The companies said the acquisition of Curve, a royalty tech processing platform for thousands of record labels, distributors and publishing clients worldwide, “reflects the growing strategic importance of royalty infrastructure within the modern music business, as increasingly complex global rights flows, metadata requirements and reporting demands place greater emphasis on transparent, scalable accounting systems.” Curve will remain an independent company run by its president, Richard Leach, with Merlin and Jamen acting

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